Category: Identity Development/Psychology

  • Footprints of my other 2012 52 minutes Claude Haffner Born to a mixed race couple in the DRC, then Zaire, in the 1970s, Claude Haffner is part Congolese, part French. From her family home in France, Claude Haffner embarks on a journey in search of her African identity. She is of mixed race, born in…

  • One drop or two: Mixed-race identity and politics in America with Sharon H. Chang Rabble Podcast Network 2014-09-09 Charlene Sayo, Co-host Andrew Sayo, Co-host Eirene Cloma, Co-host When Seattle-based researcher and writer Sharon H. Chang wrote an essay that detailed why she tells her mixed-race son that he’s Asian and not white, many readers were…

  • I am not Pocahontas The Weeklings (also in Salon) 2014-09-04 Elissa Washuta AS A COWLITZ Indian child, white-skinned and New Jersey-born, I grew up fielding the question, “How much Indian are you?” without any sense of its meaning. Once I was old enough to know that my mother was Indian and my father wasn’t, I began…

  • Chinese culture fails to make the grade for today’s mixed-race children South China Morning Post Hong Kong, China 2014-09-08 Lijia Zhang, Writer, Journalist, Social Commentator Lijia Zhang recounts her struggle to instill pride and love of all things Chinese in her daughters May, my 17-year-old elder daughter, told me the results of her school exams…

  • “What Are You?”: Racial Ambiguity, Stigma, and the Racial Formation Project Deviant Behavior Volume 35, Issue 12, 2014 pages 1006-1022 DOI: 10.1080/01639625.2014.901081 Tiffanie Grier, Career Placement Director & Garden to Groceries Project Director Boys & Girls Clubs of Greater Memphis, Memphis Tennessee Carol Rambo, Associate Professor of Sociology University of Memphis, Memphis Tennessee Marshall A.…

  • Collaboration is Key to Psychology Professor Sam Sommers’ Research on Race and Ethnicity Tufts University, Medford, Massachusetts School of Arts And Sciences August 2013 Anna Burgess Doctoral Student Sarah Gaither and a Team of Undergraduates Focus on Biracial Perceptions and Identity Flexibility “As a society, the way we think about questions of race and ethnicity…

  • Documentary reveals Jewish mother’s ‘Little White Lie’ The Times of Israel 2014-08-17 Rebecca Spence Lacey Schwartz’s film about reconciling her hidden black paternity to the Ashkenazi Jewish home she was raised in strikes universal themes SAN FRANCISCO (JTA) — When Lacey Schwartz celebrated her bat mitzvah more than two decades ago in her hometown of…

  • Who Are You? Multiracial Students and Microaggressions on College Campuses NASPA: Student Affairs Administrators in Higher Education 2014-08-01 Brittany Hunt Have you ever been in a situation where you were having a conversation with someone and then all of the sudden you feel them looking at you with a puzzled look on their face? Then…

  • Perceptions of Parents’ Ethnic Identities and the Personal Ethnic-Identity and Racial Attitudes of Biracial Adults Cultural Diversity and Ethnic Minority Psychology Volume 21, Number 1 (January 2015) pages 65-75 DOI: 10.1037/a0037542 Cesalie T. Stepney Rutgers, the State University of New Jersey Diana T. Sanchez, Associate Professor of Psychology Rutgers, the State University of New Jersey…

  • Black, White, or Mixed: Identity Formation and Choice Among Black-White Biracial Individuals Auburn University, Auburn, Alabama 2014-08-02 82 pages Madison Alayne Hinton A thesis submitted to the Graduate Faculty of Auburn University in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the Degree of Master of Arts Identity is a term that is difficult to define, yet…